Free Scores

These are a number of scores that I have put together over the
years, mainly for my own pleasure. They are all produced in Lilypond (a music typesetting
environment with some similarities with LaTeX). Included are also the
source files and midi-files generated in the process. Be warned: they
are not necessarily worth listening to …

Take them as is: in most cases, no attempts have been made to fulfill
strict editorial criteria.

Oh, and sorry about the crappy layout — for the time being,
this is simply a dump of the score directory, with the files in no
particular order (crappy php coding behind the scenes, too). In due time, I will
prepare a nicer site.

In order to use the lilypond files, you will need the files in the lib directory. On my system, they reside in ~/.templates/,
and this path is hard-coded in the various .ly files, so you will have to
change that manually.

Two seventeenth-century collections of laude

The files called "longo-" are the edition of a collection of laude
from 1608, and the files named "ms55-" are from a
late-seventeenth-century collection. They are both interesting for going
way beyond what is customary in this repertory in terms of musical
effects. Laude are usually very plain and simple songs for communal
singing, but these settings take it a step or two further.

I've also made recordings of most of the songs from MS55: a laptop, a
cheap mike, four-track recording in Ardour (studio software) and some
inventive (ab)use of effects plugins, and my office desk is magically
turned into a cathedral and myself into the cathedral choir …